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Re: revised x86_64-pc-mingw32 patch

From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
To: Kai Tietz <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:32:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: revised x86_64-pc-mingw32 patch
References: <OF71CF90B0.D5606206-ONC12572AB.0052F511-C12572AB.0057CDA0@onevision.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Kai Tietz wrote:

> Therefore I did not made out a good reason to fullfil the points b) and 
> c). But may you can give me a hint, where this is so important ? BTW 
> what you call unix x86_64 code is more a reflection of the AMD x86_64 
> abi from http://www.x86-64.org AFAICS.

Yes, and that _is_ the unix ABI.  It would have been nice if it were _the_ 
x86-64 ABI, but MS chose to use something completely different, (while Mac 
OS uses some slight variation).  So calling it "unix" ABI makes sense.

Ciao,
Michael.

References:
- Re: revised x86_64-pc-mingw32 patch
  - From: Kai Tietz

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